Activity ideas for helping your child develop attention skills

• Puzzles- put the pieces into a bag, take them out and name, offer choice of two
• Posting- give choice of two pieces and name before posting
• Threading- thread a particular number of reels
• Colour matching into trays
• Picture lotto games 
• Post balls into a tube
• Sorting for type, size and colour
• Peg boards
• Flatten some playdough, press marbles into it
• Mr Potato Head
• Make a car from a construction material (eg: duplo)- give child same pieces and ask them to copy it 
• Collage with particular number of pieces to stick
• Scissors- snip along, or make consecutive cuts along given line
• Use items to count and numerals- count the items and find the correct numeral to match total